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America Page 8 Already invisible in our cities, after detention, they have become “ghost prisoners.” In this, there are eerie parallels to past witch-hunts, including the 1919 detention of 10,000 immigrants after anarchists bombed the Attorney General’s home; the 1941 internment of 110,000 Japanese-Americans; the trial and execution of the Rosenbergs; and the HUAC Black-listing under Senator Joseph McCarthy. VISIBLE, a collective of Muslim and other Artist-Activists, will premiere their exhibition Disappeared in America at the Queens Museum of Art. Disappeared in America is a walk-through installation that uses a film trilogy, soundscapes, photos, objects, and the audience’s interactions to humanize the faces of “disappeared” Muslims. The VISIBLE Collective has compiled from various sources a list of hundreds of names of the disappeared. The list of names (along with age, location of residence and country of origin, when these were available) formed the basis for the piece NaHnu Waahad (We Are One) in the Disappeared in America installation. Disappeared in America premieres at Queens Museum of Art, New York on 27 February 27 2005 and will be on view until 5 June 5 2005. The project will be presented as part of FATAL LOVE, a major exhibition of South Asian arts in the Diaspora. The DisappearedInAmerica.org website is the online companion to the exhibition. On this site you can hear audio, browse video, and view photographs from the exhibition, as well as read pertinent legal documents, and view and contribute to a community-maintained database of disappeared persons. Daoud Chehazeh (Syria, b. 1951): Visa expired in 2001; detained from 1 Oct 2001 to 26 Aug 2002; moved to five dfifferent detention centers over one year; no charges ever filed; released in 2002 and subsequently received political asylum. Shabnum Shahnaz (Pakistan, b. 1973): Daughter of Rani Shahnaz (b. 1950). Rani indefinitely detained since 22 September 2003; currently fighting deportation proceedings. Fawad Rahman (Afghanistan, b. 1975): Husband of Samira Rahman (b. 1975). Samira applied for political asylum as member of Tajik minority; asylum denied 28 April 2003; separated from two US-born children and detained facing deportation since 7 January 2005. Mohammed Mohiuddin (Bangladesh, b. 1972): In US for medical treatment of rare blood disease, went through required Special Registration; Passport seized, facing deportation; currently fighting deportation in court. Tariq Abdel-Muhti (New York, b. 1978): Son of Palestinian activist and WBAI reporter Farouk Abdel-Muhti; Farouk detained between 2002-04; denied medicine in jail; released after international campaign; died of heart attack from complications created by jail term 21 July 2004. Chaplain James Yee (b. 1969): Accused of spying at Guantanamo Bay; detained for 76 days in solitary confinement; government eventually dropped all charges. |